Standish James O'Grady The Coming of Finn
The Boyhood of Cuchulain
Patrick Kennedy The Three Crowns
The Grateful Beasts
The Adventures of Gilla Na Chreck
The Wonderful Cake
The Kildare Pooka
The Corpse Watchers
William Allingham The Lepracaun
The Abbot of Inisfalen
T. Crofton Croker Daniel O'Rourke
The Legend of Knockgrafton
Lady Gregory Cuchulain of Muirthemne
W. B. Yeats The Stolen Child
A Faery Song
Bryan O'Looney The Land of Youth
Mrs. Ewing The Hill-Man and the House-Wife
Sir Samuel Ferguson The Giant Walker
Patrick W. Joyce The Pursuit of the Gilla Dacker
Letitia McClintock Jamie Freel and the Young Lady
William Carleton A Legend of Knockmany
The Mad Pudding
Joseph Campbell The Ninepenny Fidil
Nicholas O'Kearney Festivities at the House of Conan
Samuel Lover The White Trout
The Legend of the Little Weaver
King O'Toole and St. Kevin
Alfred Perceval Graves Mor of Cloyne
Jeremiah Curtin Lawn Dyarrig
Lady Wilde The Horned Women
The Demon Cat
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Quare Gander
James Clarence Mangan The Fairies' Passage
Douglas Hyde The King of the Black Desert
The Piper and the Puca
The Bracket Bull
Dora Sigerson The Fairy Changeling
Eleanor Hull The Talking Head of Donn-Bo
Murtough and the Witch-Woman
W. Larminie Morraha
The Red Pony
Thomas Boyd The King's Son
Nora Hopper Lament of the Last Leprechaun
Alfred Tennyson The Voyage of Maeldune

Leprechauns, fairies, and other mythical figures inhabit this entertaining collection of Irish fairy lore. The rich and representative collection of 43 tales and poems includes "The Stolen Child," a beguiling poem by William Butler Yeats; "The King of the Black Desert," by poet, scholar, and statesman Douglas Hyde; Lady Jane Wilde's "The Horned Women" and "The Demon Cat," as well as works by Joseph Campbell, Jeremiah Curtin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Patrick Kennedy, and other distinguished writers.
A valuable resource for students of Celtic lore, The Irish Fairy Book offers hours of enchanted reading for lovers of folktales.